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The Center for Teaching Excellence is dedicated to helping faculty achieve excellence in their teaching by providing them with opportunities for professional and personal growth.

Among other things, excellent teaching

• Places students at the center of all teaching and learning.
• Involves students actively in the learning process.
• Presents knowledge in terms which are meaningful and understandable to students.
• Challenges students to develop strategies for lifelong learning.
• Respects and acknowledges student differences.

Effective teaching is a reflective process that incorporates critical self appraisal and hard work.

The Center for Teaching Excellence provides services for the enhancement of teaching, such as:

• Workshops and discussions
• New faculty orientation
• Faculty consultations
• Mentorship opportunities
• Books and videotapes on teaching and learning
• Teaching portfolio development assistance
• Teaching excellence awards

Services are dynamic, depending on the needs and interests of the faculty. Faculty may request the use of the Center's services by contacting the Center or the Director at 357-7800, or by visiting the office located at 103 Stabley Library. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.

	The IUP Reflective Practice Project A Campus-wide Effort to Promote More Effective Teaching. IUP faculty working together to improve their teaching. On this page are summaries of activities of the RP group, guidelines to establish departmental teaching circles, presentations, and other information of interest to faculty.
	New Faculty Orientation New Faculty Orientation is a two-day program designed to introduce faculty new to IUP to the university and to explore topics such as diversity, teaching, and learning.
	Look here for books on teaching and learning which can be borrowed from the Teaching Excellence Library.
	Videos/Films on Teaching, most located in Media Resources, Stapleton Library.
	Learning Communities: Enhancing IUP's Summer Program. This article by Sally A. Lipsky, Reading/Study Skills Coordinator at IUP, first appeared in The ACT 101 Journal, December 1997.
	Award and Grant Initiatives